Larry Magid writes: We need to find better ways to protect our shared infrastructure while also protecting national sovereignty and an open Internet.

Conservative commentators lashed out at Google over the company's decision to feature labor and civil rights legend Cesar Chavez, instead of an Easter-related theme, as its "Google Doodle" Sunday.

The battle between Apple and Samsung is likely to grow fiercer, analysts say, because the high-end smartphone market is nearly saturated, meaning new growth for companies will come from stealing customers away from one another.

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Meanwhile, some analysts are beginning to wonder whether Samsung's tremendous growth could tip the balance in the company's relationship with Google, maker of Android.

Mike Cassidy writes: William Shockley's semiconductor lab at 391 San Antonio Road in Mountain View might not be worth saving. But developer Merlone Geier Partners is willing to mark the historic spot in some bold way, providing an opportunity to honor the birth of Silicon Valley in ways that an old building never could. And it has no shortage of would-be saviors.

Continuing its push to capture the hearts and minds of smartphone users, Facebook is holding a launch event this week to show off what it calls "our new home on Android."

Undeterred by spectacular failures like Webvan, a new crop of startups is offering shopping experiences that allow customers to stock their refrigerator without ever setting foot in a supermarket.

The Bay Area job market stumbled in February but the region continued to outpace the state and nation in job growth, a report released Friday showed.

About 75 girls and parents crammed into the offices of the Kilpatrick, Townsend and Stockton law firm Saturday for the first Girls Innovate forum, a free and public event organized by AWE, a new volunteer group organized by Asian-American women in Silicon Valley.

Four years since the Great Recession officially ended, women, hit hardest by the sharpest economic crisis in generations, still lag in the recovery, according to a report by the California Budget Project.